Thanks for responding to my points! You didn’t have to go through line by line, but its appreciated.
Obviously a line by line response to your line by line response to my line by line response to your article would be somewhat over the top. So I’ll refrain!
The general point I’d make though is that this almost feels like an argument for something before you’ve decided what you want to argue for. There feels like a conceptual hole in the middle of this piece (as you say, people are still trying to work out what the problem is). But then you also respond to most of (not all) my points without actually giving a counter-argument, just claiming that I’m clearly mistaken. This makes it quite hard to actually engage with what you’ve written.
Maybe, as Alexander seems to think, I’m just a poor blinkered fool who can’t understand other people’s perspectives—but I am actually tryign to engage with what you’ve written here, not sh*t posting.
Obviously a line by line response to your line by line response to my line by line response to your article would be somewhat over the top. So I’ll refrain!
Yes we could waste our lives falling down a hole here.
But then you also respond to most of (not all) my points without actually giving a counter-argument, just claiming that I’m clearly mistaken.
Huh. I must have messed up the tone of my last message because that wasn’t the intention at all. For some of my responses I thought I was basically agreeing with you, and others I was clarifying what I (or rather Diego) was trying to say rather than saying you are wrong.
Thanks for responding to my points! You didn’t have to go through line by line, but its appreciated.
Obviously a line by line response to your line by line response to my line by line response to your article would be somewhat over the top. So I’ll refrain!
The general point I’d make though is that this almost feels like an argument for something before you’ve decided what you want to argue for. There feels like a conceptual hole in the middle of this piece (as you say, people are still trying to work out what the problem is). But then you also respond to most of (not all) my points without actually giving a counter-argument, just claiming that I’m clearly mistaken. This makes it quite hard to actually engage with what you’ve written.
Maybe, as Alexander seems to think, I’m just a poor blinkered fool who can’t understand other people’s perspectives—but I am actually tryign to engage with what you’ve written here, not sh*t posting.
Yes we could waste our lives falling down a hole here.
Huh. I must have messed up the tone of my last message because that wasn’t the intention at all. For some of my responses I thought I was basically agreeing with you, and others I was clarifying what I (or rather Diego) was trying to say rather than saying you are wrong.